Hello, I think GIMP lacks an extremely useful feature for graphics tablet users. That's stroke/movement smoothing. Graphics tablets can be very slippery and very slow and precise movement control may require a lot of effort. My suggestion is to add an "inertia" (mass) or smoothing feature in one of the next version of GIMP in order to solve this problem for certain users. A good example of this implementation can be found in Inkscape, where for certain tools there's a "mass" parameter which the higher it is, the more movement smoothing is applied. A japanese programmer has made a source code modification (patch) which enables this feature on GIMP by apply the moving average of cursor movement. The patch (diff file) for version 2.6.6 can be found here: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/gimp-painter/releases/ The filename is "gimp-painter--20090618.diff" The page (and its referring one) unfortunately is completely in japanese. The diff file patch actually contains two modifications: G-Pen, which is the patch for movement smoothing, and MixBrush, which enables a more advanced paintbrush blending feature, but it's not the scope of this email to speak about that. I don't know much about programming, but maybe an experienced GIMP coder can take a look at it and tell if it could be possible to implement it soon on future versions of GIMP? I think it would be a great feature to have for tablet users. Thanks for your time, SHIRAKAWA Akira _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
